At some point in the last couple of years, everything seems to have been sped up. I simply do not know where the time goes and I often wonder how the hell I did this while hammered. I woke up this morning at the cat’s meow, fed them, chugged some water and checked email and work stuff, hosed myself off in the shower, applied a heavy layer of sunscreen, and mowed until about 1:30. Went to the gym, did a quick grocery, tidied up a little, cooked dinner, did my bird watch, had dinner, and it’s just over. I didn’t take a nap, I didn’t watch tv, I was in constant motion. And the day just vaporized.
All of which is a long way of saying I have no idea what is going on in the world other than Trump and his dipshits managed to piss away 10 billion to blast some holes in the ground and accomplished nothing. And the God’s honest truth that that is probably the best fucking possible outcome with these malignant chucklefucks. I would put nothing past these idiots and it is anyone’s guess whether it is the incompetence or the malevolence that is the bigger threat.
At any rate, I have little to no idea what is going on. The NYC mayoral primary is today and I have no idea how blue NYC is going to fuck this up Florida style, but you know it’s gonna be fucking epic. I would not put it past them to fuck around after Cuomo eventually wins the primary and cross ticket for the general and end up with eric adams or fucking Curtis Sliwa. You know what you are gonna get with Adams, and if you don’t know anything about Sliwa, go watch some old 70’s early 80’s “the blacks in the cities are gonna kills us all” movies. Anything with Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, or Clint Eastwood will do.
So I totally expect them to fuck this up some way some how because why not? The writers have clearly been given a free hand with the plot line this last decade, so why stop now? Regardless, we can collectively hope this somehow ends well, which is what I am going to do while bracing myself for the inevitable.
I finished the Agency: Central Intelligence, and loved it. The sound and music was amazing and feally ratcheted up the tension. Currently watch the Day of the Jackal on Peacok, which has a lovely theme song:
What a haunting yet enchanting voice. Honestly sounds like a James Bond theme song.
Trivia Man
I had a different bird app that was much more cumbersome. The JC bird list convinced me to get Merlin and i love it. Especially watching the bird name light up when it tweets again.
Baud
According to Blue sky, Mamdani is overperforming expectations in the first round of counting.
Trivia Man
Results:
https://www.benjrosenblatt.com/live-results-for-2025-ny-primary-election
jackmac
Curtis Sliwa? The Guardian Angels guy from the 1970s and 1980s? He’s still around?
Admittedly I’m a Midwest guy and Sliwa hasn’t been on my radar since, well, never.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
I’m in NYC at a local campaign watch party while the results of the Democratic primary come in. Yes this is just a primary race for mayor in one city but the city is NYC, all the usual suspects (Clinton etc) endorsed the very well known Andrew Cuomo, and the Muslim dark horse is winning.
and Trivia Man already beat me to it…
Layer8Problem
The Agency‘s the remake of the French Le Bureau des Légendes, which was a damned good series. Check it out and compare and contrast.
Eolirin
If Lander’s supporters break for Mamdani, (and he told them to rank Mamdani high and vice versa, as part of an alliance) and baring any massive swing from the remaining outstanding vote, it’s looking like he’s got this
That being said, this may not go as well as we’d all like. It’s not like the NYPD and the FDNY can’t and won’t bring massive pressure to the political apparatus of the city, let alone all the other players, no matter who gets elected Mayor. Even smart progressive policy can get chewed up and spit out by the machine that is city politics.
Steve LaBonne
@Eolirin: God I hope he turns out to be more competent than de Blasio, or FSM help us Brandon Johnson.
Captain C
I suspect the punditry underestimated how many New Yorkers completely can’t stand Andrew Cuomo after how much he fucked with NYC during his governorship.
lowtechcyclist
@Eolirin:
I assume Cuomo will run as an independent in the general, since NY apparently has no ‘sore loser’ law.
Scout211
Rolling Stone (web archive version) has a nice wrap-up of the international news you missed, Cole.
Steve LaBonne
@lowtechcyclist: So he can split the asshole vote with Adams.
Jackie
@Eolirin: I’m not a NYer, much less live in NYC, so it’s interesting to see who NYC selects as their Democratic nominee. I don’t want woman molester Cuomo, but I don’t know a lot about Mamdani, other than what I’ve read about him here. Should Mamdani win, who’s the Republican candidate? Or is that TBD by a republican primary?
Eolirin
@Steve LaBonne: I’m less worried about his competency and more worried about him picking fights that get him killed tbh.
I think part of why De Blaiso spiraled out so fast was because he got into a fight with the NYPD over some barely critical comments he made. It felt like he completely stopped trying after that, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a lot of behind the scenes pressure being applied.
mrmoshpotato
Haven’t seen The Day of the Jackal in a while.
Watched Heat last night on Netflix. Still excellent after 30 years.
Layer8Problem
@jackmac: Yeah, Sliwa’s still around. We’ve got a migrant shelter in the neighborhood and they’ve been no trouble for anyone. Before it opened Silwa came by for a “bi-partisan rally” to offer his “support” for the community. Anything for the column-inches in the tabloids. Like I said they’ve been good neighbors. I hope Sliwa wasn’t too disappointed.
Jackie
@Scout211: Thanks for posting the RS article! I don’t have a subscription and could only get a tease. I love tongue in cheek articles that potentially embarrass FFOTUS! :-D
Galaxy Being
Lee Marvin wasn’t in a movie like that.
Aziz, light!
In 1980 I met Curtis Sliwa in his heyday on the subway in Manhattan, complete with his stupid guardian angels T-shirt and stupider red beret and a few of his matching cosplay homies comically posing for commuters. Doofus then, bigger doofus now.
PsiFighter37
@Eolirin: Mamdani will win. So now I’ve got a general election with Eric Adams, Cuomo (who has an independent ballot line), Mamdani, and Curtis Silwa. I did not list either Mamdani or Cuomo – I am not convinced Mamdani can run a city government competently. I will not vote for Cuomo, especially as an independent candidate, much less one given his record of personal behavior. Adams and Silwa – no way. I also do not like Juumaane Williams. So…may very well leaving the top of the ballot blank and voting in all the other races. Maybe I will vote for Mamdani simply to stop either Cuomo or Adams getting back in, but I have a bad feeling that Cuomo is going to end up winning the general with something like 40% of the vote – he is going to vacuum up the vast majority of Republicans and independents, as well as a good chunk of Democrats, especially in the areas he is showing strength in tonight.
Suzanne
Mamdani looks to be ahead by a significant margin. Maybe now Andrew Cuomo will get the message and slither back under his rock.
chemiclord
If NYC fucks things up, it’s going to be due to the simple fact that you can’t legislate around a shitty electorate. In that sense, how you pick your leaders, or how you restrict them with term limits or mandatory voting or ranked choice or parliamentary measures… if “We The People” want corrupt imbeciles to lead us… we’re going to get corrupt imbeciles leading us.
PsiFighter37
@Jackie: The GOP candidate is Curtis Silwa, who still wears his red beret around and cosplays like a street fighter frozen in time. He got whipped by Adams in 2021, and he will do even worse this year because I have no doubt the GOP is going to do Cuomo a solid and really push his independent line in the general election.
PatD
@Steve LaBonne: BDB was actually reelected with ~70% of the vote.
PsiFighter37
@chemiclord: Too much of NYC loves ineffective performative politicians, but in a city that is as stratified by income, it is not surprising that a good chunk of the population thinks an ineffective young 30-something professional politician is going to be able to govern the biggest city in the country.
@chemiclord:
Eolirin
@Jackie: The Republican candidate is pretty much irrelevant. No Republican is going to win NYC mayoral race at this point. NYC is pretty much the only reason the state goes blue in national elections. It’s extremely lopsided.
Now, Adams is still running as an independent, though I’m not expecting him to pick up many votes and The Working Families Party could run Cuomo if he doesn’t win the Democratic primary. Usually the WFP and Democratic lines are the same people, but they don’t have to be.
I don’t know if Mamdani will do a good job. I do know that Cuomo, whatever else you say about him, is extremely capable at navigating political machinery, and especially the kind of cutthroat shit that’s city politics. He’d bend the city to his will in a way few other politicians could. But the flip side of that is that he’s an asshole and wouldn’t do what was best for the city with that power.
I think it’s pretty even odds anyone else flames out pretty hard by the end of their first term for one reason or other. Mayor isn’t King. And running on pretty sizable reforms is likely going to run head first into obstacles that are likely going to be very difficult to overcome. So there’s an inherent danger in Mamdani’s platform for him.
Real change isn’t easy to accomplish and it leaves damage in its wake even if you pull it off. There’s a ton of very entrenched and vested interests that’ll be looking to maintain the status quo in the city.
PsiFighter37
@PatD: Because the city hates Republicans more. His reelection in 2017 was at the peak of first-term Resistance politics. Nobody liked his lazy ass.
PatD
@PsiFighter37: Unfortunately there are many who will simply not give someone like Mamdani a chance. And that gives a lane to someone like Cuomo in general as an independent.
PsiFighter37
@Eolirin: The WFP absolutely hates Cuomo’s guts. If he doesn’t win the Democratic primary, there’s less than a snowball’s chance in hell he gets their line, but he already has another line to run on, so he doesn’t need them.
PatD
@PsiFighter37: Yeah, I’m not saying he was particularly competent but that doesn’t seem to be all that valued either.
PsiFighter37
@PatD: It will be interesting to see what the machine politicos do. Knowing NY Democrats, they’ll probably make a complete mess of it somehow.
mayim
Growing up in Buffalo, NYC seemed like a different world. Our big city was Toronto ~ we got their tv stations over the air, so I grew up watching Hockey Night in Canada and lots of other Canadian shows. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on Canadian content policy for broadcasters. All the rhetoric was about Canadian culture, the actual regulations about who got the jobs.
As a distraction ~ my most recent set of foster kittens. They spent a fair bit of time in the kennel, because mamacat was feral so I couldn’t trust her to not find some small space I hadn’t blocked off. I took them back to the shelter recently; now I’m just waiting for a new set to be healthy enough to bring home. Unfortunately, we’ve gotten lots of kittens this year from unmanaged colonies and hoarding situations. I’m glad we’ve gotten the kittens out and on their way to health and an appointment for snippy surgery but waiting is hard.
So many thanks to those who have donated to my GoFundMe. I actually feel a little less desperate and like I’m beating my persistent/major depressive disorder [both are in my medical records] after a very bad weekend.
Paul W.
@Baud: YEahhhhhhhhhh! This NYC voter and former DSA member is super psyched, they have run a HELL of a campaign with a HELL of a candidate.
Eolirin
@PsiFighter37: I figure the money he has access to opens a lot of doors, but sure, if he’s got an alternative already no need to bother with trying to cut a deal.
Jackie
@PsiFighter37: Thanks!
PsiFighter37
@Eolirin: He tried to cut off the WFP’s access to their ballot line when they supported Cynthia Nixon. Less than zero love lost there. The WFP would love nothing more than to contribute to burying Cuomo’s political career for good.
Splitting Image
@Eolirin:
There are always going to be risks about going with the new guy.
But there were a lot of risks going with Cuomo too. I heard a lot of pundits talking about how Jews wer going to abandon the Democrats en masse if Mamdani won because of comments he made about the Likud. I honestly think that any Jews in New York who are serious supporters of Netanyahu at this point have already gone over to the Republicans.
What I didn’t hear a lot pundits talking about is the blowback the Democrats would have gotten from women by rehabilitating an obnoxious sex pest. One of the more depressing things about the last six months is watching the professional old white guys advocate scrubbing women’s rights completely from the Democrats’ platform and the public sphere in general. Yeah sure, reach out to incels. See where that gets you.
I’m hopeful that the Libs of TikTok woman endorsing Cuomo was the final nail in his political coffin.
PatD
One takeaway is that the anti-incumbent energy is real (Cuomo building his initial lead from name recognition) and Dem consultants across the country are shitting bricks tonight.
RevRick
@Baud: He’s up by 70,000 votes, a little over 7% over Cuomo.
CaseyL
On BlueSky, there was a discussion about how the NYC public sector unions – the firefighters and cops – can destroy any mayor they don’t like, working behind the scenes to stymie reforms. It’s not about ideology in NYC: it’s about fiefdoms.
ETA: What Eolirin said.
Jackie
If Mamdani prevails, can Cuomo AND Adams both run as independents, or would that require another primary?
Eolirin
@Splitting Image: So, there’s multiple frames. There’s what’s best for the morale of the party and what’s best in terms of policy agendas, there’s what can even be accomplished in terms of policy, and there’s who’d best be able to navigate getting anything done, and there’s what’s best for the city. The answers to those are not the same candidates.
PsiFighter37
@Jackie: They already both have different ballot lines in the general. So expect the both to run.
PsiFighter37
@CaseyL: If Mamdani decides to focus on police reform as his top priority should he win, he’s a fucking idiot. The best way to win buy-in would be to keep Jessica Tisch as the commissioner and focus on other policy areas.
RevRick
Looking forward to my MOHS surgery on my thumb for squamous cell carcinoma tomorrow morning. I get that done at one facility, then MrsRev will drive me crosstown to another hospital for the repairs by my hand surgeon (who is 79!). I’m drinking a Balvenie double cask, because why not?
Jackie
@PsiFighter37: Thanks, again :-D
I guess we’ll have to wait and see what NYC-ers decide.
Old School
frosty
Here’s the reason why. We don’t perceive time as linear, we perceive it as fractions of the time we’ve lived. So at 20, five years is a 1/4 of your life. When you’re 40, five years is 1/8 of your life. Time as you perceive it has sped up.
When I was in elementary school, the 9-week marking period took forever for 10-year old me. Now, 70-ish me can’t even sharpen a pencil in 9 weeks.
Another Scott
@Trivia Man: Interesting.
Thanks.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Timill
@RevRick: Wouldn’t want it to go to waist, after all…
Steve LaBonne
@RevRick: I’ve had two of those removed from my face. Damned Irish complexion.
Eolirin
@PsiFighter37: If anyone can actually succeed at police reform it’ll do the city a ton of good. Breaking the power bases of the NYPD and the FDNY would vastly improve the political environment.
I also don’t think that’s going to be Mamdani. But it would be nice for someone to eventually figure out how to make it happen.
mrmoshpotato
@Old School: Hopefully he’s kneed in his balls for the rest of his fat, orange, fascist life.
Steve LaBonne
@Old School: I hope he didn’t let the door hit him in the big balls on his way out.
Scout211
@Old School: Good riddance to Big Balls.
gwangung
@Scout211: Anyone who says they have them…doesn’t.
Splitting Image
@Eolirin:
All true, but as an outsider, I don’t see how Cuomo is the answer to any of those questions. My impression of him is that a lot of voters assume that a certain amount of corrupt dealmaking and using one’s office for personal advancement is bound to happen to get anything done. They see that Cuomo has the corrupt dealmaking and personal aggrandisement down pat, and assume that he’s getting stuff done in spite of evidence to the contrary. Trump’s fans are like this, too.
There are a lot of ways that Mamdani can screw up. But based on his behaviour as governor, I think that Cuomo’s rule would have focused on settling scores and empowering Republicans in the city government. And that is a guaranteed recipe for failure.
Jay
@PsiFighter37:
Mamdani’s focus on police reform is to not hire 9,000 more KKKops,(Adam’ss plan) and to stop having KKKops work massive overtime responding to calls that should be Social Workers and First Responders
Of course, his opponents call it “Defund the Police”.
Lyrebird
Well I avoid regular news bc it makes me ill, and yep it is complicated, but if what I heard is correct, Mamdani was there helping Brad Lander* against ICE aka Noem’s thugs, even before Gov Hochul arrived.
*Lander is very openly Jewish.
All of this is a long way of saying THANK YOU for speaking out against the whitewashing of creeps like Cuomo!
Splitting Image
Apparently Cuomo has conceded.
MazeDancer
No Cuomo is such a refief.
Jackie
Interesting! I did NOT see Cuomo conceding so easily!
Scout211
@MazeDancer:
These NYC pols really know how to play all the angles.
Eolirin
@Splitting Image: Cuomo didn’t just do corrupt deal making, he created an entire political machine around himself and it endured for a very long time before it was able to be challenged. The loss of that machine likely cost us the House in 2022.
If the enemies he had made along the way didn’t use the twin scandals of the covid nursing home report doctoring and the sexual harassment complaints, and the way that stuff hit it was definitely a coordinated effort to take him down, he would not only still be governor, but he’d be a leading candidate for running for President in 2028.
Keep in mind his empowering of Republicans as governor wasn’t actually about empowering Republicans. It was about creating a split legislature that would never willingly agree on anything, with the balance of power being beholden to him, so that all of the budget negotiations effectively ran through the governor’s office.
I’m not saying these are positive traits in absence of context, but the one thing you should not underestimate Cuomo on is his capacity to understand, manipulate and subvert the structures of power. He’s not just a corrupt pol and an asshole. He’s actually very good at what is a rare skill.
That being said, enriching himself, settling scores, and doing just enough to keep people behind him instead of him turning to a rival is absolutely how he’d go about applying that skill. And no, that isn’t great for the city either.
NotMax
Where have you gone, Eddie Kochio
Our city turns its lonely eyes to you
//
twbrandt
Apparently a young, appealing candidate laser focused on issues people care about can win. Who knew?
Eolirin
@Jay: De Blaiso’s entire mayorship seemed to come crashing to a halt following police protests over the fact that he said he had to talk to his black son about being cautious when dealing with cops in the aftermath of Eric Garner’s murder.
The NYPD are extremely thin skinned. And they are extremely vindictive, and very very powerful. If he tries to take their overtime away (which would subsequently impact their pensions) they may very well just have him killed.
twbrandt
@RevRick: Hope all goes well!
Another Scott
Best wishes,
Scott.
NotMax
@RevRick
Jealous. And I don’t mean of the surgery.
Best wishes for that. ;)
Captain C
@gwangung: I mean, he could have had the Nikki Minaj COVID variant that apparently caused her cousin or cousin’s friend’s nards to swell up like balloons.
Captain C
@Splitting Image:
Many NYC residents remember how Cuomo went out of his way to screw us at almost every opportunity when he was governor.
Jackie
Josh Hawley finally shows who we already knew he was:
Jackie
@Another Scott: 😂
Marc
@Trivia Man: Merlin rebooted my childhood birdwatching hobby, I’d never really paid much attention to just how complex some of these bird “songs” really are. It’s also an example of how “AI” is going to effect our lives, not only does Merlin match bird pictures against it’s database of images (which I never use, as I can never get good pictures of small birds), it matches pictures of the sounds they make (“sonograms”) against a database of bird sounds. Freakin’ amazing, from my personal POV.
Old Dan and Little Ann
@frosty: I taught that to 4th graders about 20 years ago. I never really thought about until then. I don’t think they cared as much as I do. LOL…
Jay
@Eolirin:
The NYPD itself is complaining about overtime. Some Officers are getting less than 4 hours sleep a day and working 6 days a week.
They also hate and resent that half the calls they respond to, are calls that a Social Worker is better suited to handle.
When they want OT, they can still do their “Last Hour Busts”, (98% don’t result in a conviction). They sweep somebody up for “not a crime” and get to book 4-6 hours OT doing the booking process.
WTFGhost
When I’m fatigued, I have the same issue – the day seems to vanish. On my rare good days, I’m amazed at what I can accomplish, which might be very little, but, it felt like I had time.
I mean, my day is, like, I need to carefully remind myself to brush my teeth, or I’ll never get around to it until bedtime. Just taking two minutes to do that won’t occur to me, because there’s never a spare two minutes to “waste.”
I also think that pain, and fatigue, might be more closely related than we think. There’s the obvious, being in pain, and having to hide it, sucks ass, and it tires you out. But what is the difference between “I don’t want to load the dishwasher, I’m just so tired,” and “I don’t want to load the dishwasher, it seems like it will be so painful!”?
Anyway: if you wanted to ask my advice, I’d say think over any pain and fatigue issues you might report to your doctor, if you thought your doctor could fix each and every single one of them. Don’t ignore symptoms that you’ve learned to ignore because you can’t fix them, see? If you feel yourself shaking your head to wake up, pretend the doctor has an alertness aid to fix it, even if you wouldn’t use prescription stimulants. And so forth.
It also happens when I’m depressed – there’s no celebrating being alive, because, hey, depressed, so the day flies away because nothing nice happened, and I tried to ignore all the yucky stuff, which was almost everything.
strange visitor (from another planet)
@Eolirin: they doxxed his kids and threatened to kill him.
i keep telling you guys- guess i’ll have to say it again. ny is NOT a liberal state. nyc is NOT a liberal city. it’s a democratic city, but the old money and new money that run the city are conservative and cautious.
-but why listen to a guy who LIVES here?
(also holy fuck, cuomo is an asshole.)
Soprano2
@Jackie: Hawley never meant any of that stuff he said about not cutting Medicaid. Missourians knew that but the national press got suckered once again by a Republican lying.
Eolirin
@Jay: Anything they want themselves, he’ll get buy-in for. Anything they feel is encroaching on their turf, or in the slightest way disrespects them, even if it’s something that benefits them, they’ll take as a threat that needs to be eliminated.
strange visitor (from another planet)
@CaseyL: nypd and old money run new york. the rest is window dressing.
NaijaGal
I can’t believe Mamdani won!
I really like his mom (filmmaker Mira Nair) but don’t know much about him.
Marc
I’m going to be spending some time in NYC (Queens to be precise), as I’ve taken on fixing up a coop that has sat vacant for a number of years, in an effort to make sure an aging cousin has some income. If Mamdani wins in the end, it might make us optimistic enough for my wife and I to consider making the move.
Eolirin
@strange visitor (from another planet): I do think we’re rapidly approaching the point where liberal and small c conservative are very close to the same thing.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@strange visitor (from another planet): that was true.
But as this most recent election suggests, that may be changing.
NotMax
@strange visitor (from another planet)
Along with the sanitation workers union.
@Marc
Shall be in NYC area sometime in August (dates still TBD). Usually try to arrange for a B-J meet-up. If you’re still around then, hope you’ll consider joining in.
Interesting Name Goes Here
Mamdani won, huh?
Well, good luck to him. That’s about all the well-wishes I can offer, because I have and will eternally have severe problems with anyone who had even a mild thought about contributing to the Abandon Harris platform, and I don’t think people should be rewarded for that shit in any way except that which fits traitors, and definitely not with a seat in anyone’s government.
NotMax
@strange visitor (from another planet)
Am convinced those making money hand over fist in NYC are the companies which rent or sell scaffolding, It’s everywhere!
;)
gwangung
@Jay: Which sounds like a deft hand could actually use those internal grumblings to make changes that would please (or at least not antagonize) all parties.
Whether this youngster can do it, well…
Kelly
In other good news I read the Big Bad Bill’s provision to sell off a bunch of federal land was washed away in the Byrd Bath. Republicans have been trying this for a long time, hopefully they’re stymied for another few years.
RaflW
There’s going to be dozens of pundit thumb-suckers tomorrow about “Don’t nationalize Mamdani’s win, it’s not indicative of a Dem base exhausted by uninspiring and lame machine politics” but that’ll just be confirmation that there’s shock waves ricocheting around the consultant-driven, rich ‘liberals’ set.
strange visitor (from another planet)
@NotMax: there’s a law; many people in nyc have an existential fear of something falling on them from an apartment window. the big one most talk about is an AC unit. construction sites spawn similar fears, except they’re far more warranted.
strange visitor (from another planet)
@Chacal Charles Calthrop: we thought that when deblasio won. the nypd had him cowed relatively quickly.
PJ
@strange visitor (from another planet):
The law exists because a piece of a building fell off and killed a woman. It’s a good law; the problem is the city doesn’t care about whether owners actually fix their buildings, just that they put up the scaffolding. In some places it remains for decades.
Tom Q
Just to answer a few people here who are discussing Cuomo’s potential 3rd party run:
He has indeed qualified to be on the ballot, and, had Mamdani prevailed over him (after RCV) by a relatively small margin, he might well have.
But that’s not going to happen. Given that most of the other candidates (esp. 3rd place finisher Lander) have practically cross-endorsed Mamdani, Cuomo would have needed to lead in 1st place votes tonight to have a chance. Trailing by 7% with almost all votes in puts him in an impossible situation. He’ll likely be behind at blowout levels when RCV totals are announced next Tuesday.
And you could see all that in Cuomo’s face when he conceded tonight. That was not the speech of a guy who thinks he’s going to win in a November rematch. That was a guy who wants to spare himself the further tarnishing of his reputation such a run would bring.
Tom Q
@PJ: Usually, when scaffolding comes down around my neighborhood, it’s been up so long I’ve about forgotten what the obscured building looked like.
PatD
@RaflW: All that angst over how to win back the youth vote and appeal to them only to whine and complain when someone figures it out. The sooner Dems fire their consultants the better.
sab
3 am here in Ohio and 75 degrees outside. We only hit 92 degrees ( 99 in my car when I went to the grocery store late afternoon) so I count us lucky.
Temperature break predicted for tomorrow. 7 degree break. Yay!
Tomorrow plans: water plants at dawn then feed cats, change their litter boxes, and then stay inside doing paperwork all day.
ETA Cats are inside cats. Always.
I have been neglecting cat concerns ( litter boxes) to tend to the outdoor plants frizzling in the heat. Cats have been expressing their resentment/ issues.
Yowling and also acting (I wouldn’t dignify it as thinking) outside the boxes.
Baud
@RaflW:
For me there’s only one lesson: win over voters. That’s what Mamdani did. That’s what every candidate must do, establishment or no.
sab
@sab: I checked and the loud morning birds I thought were robins are actually cardinals.
NotMax
@sab
Having a conclave?
:)
Betty Cracker
@Splitting Image:
This.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
I wonder if our brand get credit for the outcome. There’s where things have fallen short in the past. Lots of complaining, very little upside.
MagdaInBlack
@sab: I just checked and the hundreds of house sparrows really are hundreds of house sparrows, all chattering and gossiping. No cardinals up yet.
They Call Me Noni
To my ear Celeste sounds a lot like Amy Winehouse.
zhena gogolia
@Galaxy Being: Right!
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@lowtechcyclist:
Yes. He has a line on the ballot under some 3rd party (if memory serves) and has said he’ll run no matter what.
Now, if he doesn’t have the money to run the kind of corporate-funded campaign he’s used to, maybe somebody will tell him to stop reinforcing failure.
NotMax
@comrade scotts agenda of rage
New York minor parties be weird.
Not uncommon to see the same name on the ballot for the same office listed under two different parties in the general.
Betty
@PatD: I am hoping Mamdani makes it clear Lander will be his Deputy Mayor, a guy with the city government know-how to make things work. We know the NYPD will not be supportive so that will be a challenge.